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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Jung see in one of his prominent visions when he was integrating his fantasies with his interest in alchemy?

2. What does Jung say distinguishes Christ's story from other cultures' stories of resurrected gods?

3. What does Jung say about ghosts?

4. How did Jung say the primitive people of North America kept their culture alive?

5. What does Jung say about the mysteries of creation?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was the state of alchemy when Jung began to study it?

2. What does Jung say about his relationship with his wife and children?

3. How did Jung feel about the cultures he traveled through?

4. How did Jung confront his father's thinking as he grew older?

5. How do the Hindu or Buddhist ideas of reincarnation affect Jung?

6. What was Jung's feeling about his wife's death?

7. Where does Jung say giants come from?

8. Why did Jung find alchemy so interesting?

9. What is the Krater and what significance does Jung attribute to it?

10. Where does Jung say the idea of the afterlife comes from?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How would you summarize Jung's life? What words are most appropriate for describing his accomplishment? Make a case for three or four words.

Essay Topic 2

Jung attributes some degree of eternality to his childhood experiences, and he theorizes the collective unconscious as a wellspring of human experience. What role is left for the individual to play? Is the daimon the figure who determines the individual's fate, or is it the individual who chooses his or her fate?

Essay Topic 3

How does Jung know what he knows? Particularly in the discussion of the afterlife, he draws distinctions between what can be known and what cannot. What is the source of Jung's knowledge? What authorizes him to know what he knows?

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